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Schizophrenia |
Schizoid personality disorder; Schizotypal personality disorder |
For other uses, see Schizophrenia (disambiguation). Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality and by significant social or occupational dysfunction. A person experiencing untreated schizophrenia is typically characterized as demonstrating disorganized thinking, and as experiencing delusions or auditory hallucinations. Although the disorder is primarily thought to affect cognition, it ...
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Schizophrenia Articles
- Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia: An Update from the NIMH
... A child's stage of development must be taken into account when considering a diagnosis of mental illness.1 Behaviors that are normal at one age may not be at another. Rarely, a healthy young child... - Gene Hunting
... Many years of research have demonstrated that vulnerability to mental illnesses—such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, early-onset depression, anxiety disorders, autism, and attention deficit hype... - Medications
... This booklet is designed to help mental health patients and their families understand how and why medications can be used as part of the treatment of mental health problems. It is important for you to... - Schizophrenia
... Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease. Approximately 1 percent of the population develops schizophrenia during their lifetime—more than 2 million Americans suffer from the ... - Schizophrenia Gene Variant Linked to Risk Traits
... Researchers at the NIH's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have identified a relationship between a small section of one gene, the brain chemical messenger glutamate, and a collection of ... - The Numbers Count
... Mental Disorders in America Mental disorders are common in the United States and internationally. An estimated 22.1 percent of Americans ages 18 and older—about 1 in 5 adults—suffer from a diagnos... - When Someone Has Schizophrenia
... Schizophrenia is a devastating brain disorder—the most chronic and disabling of the severe mental illnesses. The first signs of schizophrenia, which typically emerge in young people in their teens o... - Women Hold Up Half the Sky
... Women and Mental Health Research Mental illnesses affect women and men differently—some disorders are more common in women, and some express themselves with different symptoms. Scientists are only n...
Resources
- Ask NOAH About: Schizoaffective Disorder Fact Sheet (New York Online Access to Health, The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center (NOAH))
- Ask NOAH About: Schizophrenia Fact Sheet (New York Online Access to Health, The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center (NOAH))
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